It’s been nearly two years since BTR last compared the Fury X versus the GTX 980 Ti. AMD’s fans have touted their “fine wine” theory as an advantage; that as a Radeon graphics card ages, the drivers get better over time and its performance goes up. Since the Fury lineup only has 4GB of HBM memory compared with the GTX 980 Ti’s 8GB of GDDR5, AMD dedicated extra engineers to the task of vRAM optimization.

Both the GTX 980 Ti and the Fury X launched at $650 and they have been natural competitors until NVIDIA released the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070 where both of the newer cards beat the GTX 980 Ti and also beat the Fury X. This evaluation will revisit some games from our last Fury X versus GTX 980 Ti evaluation together with many newer ones, and we will compare them using the very latest drivers from AMD and from NVIDIA.

The DDR4 memory market is packed full of products which offer impressive performance. Furthermore, the RGB explosion is far from over, and every brand has something unique and stylish for the RGB loving consumer. However, innovations are few and far between, and today, it seems like AORUS have come up with a product that no other brand has! It’s rare we say that about any product, let alone memory products.

The new AUROS RGB modules are still dual channel, there are only two sticks of RAM in the box. However, you get four modules!? Two of them are dummy modules, meaning you can fill all four slots on your motherboard, but not have to spend huge amounts of cash for double the actual ram. No one will know, you still get the same 2 x 8 GB kit and performance. However, you get four still with full RGB lighting, now, that is going to be awesome. Let’s dive in for a closer look!

Four sticks for the price of two? The computer memory market is split into two broad camps. On the one hand you have what we'd term the generic crowd, where price is the ultimate determining factor. These sticks often come unadorned with heatspreaders and feature JEDEC speeds and timings.

A second camp is aimed at the enthusiast, and more recently, ones that like to play with RGB lighting. Almost every DIMM manufacturer has an RGB-laden kit in its arsenal, and the latest series arrive with full-width lightbars and near-infinite customisation through manufacturer-specific utilities.

ASRock has used the Taichi lineup for a couple of generations now. The Taichi boards have made a name for themselves in both the HEDT and mainstream spaces on both Intel and AMD chipsets - the Z370 Taichi follows the trend and is a midrange offering in that mainstream space that purports to have a plethora of features and promises to be is a solid motherboard to build a PC around.

The Z370 Taichi shoots for the stars, covering its power delivery area with dual heatsinks connected via heat pipe, three high-speed M.2 slots, eight SATA ports, SLI/Crossfire support for gaming, as well as USB 3.1 ports on the rear panel and an additional header for front panel USB 3.1 connectivity. Outside of a rarely used U.2 port, on paper, the board isn't lacking anything - unless perhaps a user needs more RGB LED lights, which are only found underneath the chipset heatsink.

Earlier this year we had our first look at one of EVGA’s new SuperNOVA G3 power supplies and we were impressed – great performance at an attractive price. Today we are taking another look at a G3 power supply to see if the test results will be consistent with our original findings. We’re guessing they will.The Supernova G3 Series power supplies are based on EVGA’s popular G2 series and come packaged in a compact chassis at an affordable price. The G3 Series uses a 128mm cooling fan with a hydraulic dynamic bearing for quiet operation and EVGA claims the G3 units offer even better performance than the original G2 models. The Supernova G3 Series is available in five different models ranging from 550W up to 1000W.

So far, HP has had the ARM PC market for tablets with keyboards all to itself, but Lenovo recently soft-launched its Miix 630 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (the Snapdragon 850 is not expected until the end of 2018).

On the first pass, the Miix 630 strikes a strong resemblance to the HP Envy x2, but that's not due to copying, but rather both are based off Qualcomm's reference design for such an ideal Snapdragon-powered Windows tablet. That's a good thing as it's a winning composition (certainly better than HP's attempt at an Intel version).

"Roguelike" games are becoming more common, but something you don't see often is one designed as a first-person shooter (FPS). This is what you get with Mothergunship — and between the DOOM-inspired mechanics and the experience of crafting new guns in each randomly-generated level, this game guarantees a good time.

We have looked at X470 motherboards from all vendors, except for MSI and today we take a look at one of MSI's high-end motherboards, the X470 Gaming M7 AC, which is well equipped to fight it out in the high-end X470 arena. The motherboard is loaded with MSI's latest features, and as such is well positioned to take full advantage of the new 2000-series AMD processors. Let's take a look at this motherboard.

Could this chair be the Hero we need? Despite being a big JRPG fan, I don’t have any nostalgia for that SNES era of RPGs. Sadly, I never owned a SNES at the time, and revisiting the games in later years isn’t quite the same. I’ve always admired detailed sprite artwork, but never really felt a pang of nostalgia when playing those 16-bit throwback titles. And yet, when I saw footage of Octopath Traveler, I couldn’t help be excited. The classic 16-bit art style was reimagined for a modern era, and I couldn’t be more on board.

And Octopath Traveler is very much a classic JRPG in more ways than you might expect, for better and for worse. Jumping in you get eight character stories to choose from (thus octo-path, of course) and as you complete their initial story chapter, you can move on and add the next character to your party, until you’re eight strong and taking care of all of their individual quests and goals.

Despite being a big JRPG fan, I don’t have any nostalgia for that SNES era of RPGs. Sadly, I never owned a SNES at the time, and revisiting the games in later years isn’t quite the same. I’ve always admired detailed sprite artwork, but never really felt a pang of nostalgia when playing those 16-bit throwback titles. And yet, when I saw footage of Octopath Traveler, I couldn’t help be excited. The classic 16-bit art style was reimagined for a modern era, and I couldn’t be more on board.

And Octopath Traveler is very much a classic JRPG in more ways than you might expect, for better and for worse. Jumping in you get eight character stories to choose from (thus octo-path, of course) and as you complete their initial story chapter, you can move on and add the next character to your party, until you’re eight strong and taking care of all of their individual quests and goals.

With the Prime Gold 850W, Seasonic has a high-end power supply in its portfolio complies with the 80Plus Gold efficiency standard. In the case of power supplies the efficiency rating always correlates with the quality of the product and therefore meeting high standards, is a solid indicator for a high-quality product.